intro - External

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• founder journey

I, Daisuke Ishii, the founder, originally worked for Itochu Corporation, stationed in Europe. After being captivated by American internet business, I have been aiming for Silicon Valley for the past eight years. With a background in mathematics from Kyoto University, I specialize in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and generative AI technologies. I advanced to the final interview of Y Combinator and participated twice in the 500 Startups boot camp in Silicon Valley, demonstrating my strong commitment to business development.

Previously, I developed the translation tool "Kiara Translator" integrated with Slack, which has been adopted by 700 companies worldwide. Now, continuing with "Chapter 2," I am starting a new venture to develop an internal business improvement tool utilizing generative AI.

• startup project name
  Kiara AI

• website URL

http://kiaraapp.notion.site/

• description
  (value prop, target market, differentiation)
  Hiring COO/CFO is big founder's pain point. We provide AI sofaware to automate these process on behalf of human CXO.
  Target market is startup hubs like Tokyo, SF, LA, NY, London, Singapore. Since we plan to charge $300/mo for small biz and $5000 for enterprise (with similar pain points), we plan to reach $60-200M ARR after 5years. TAM would be $10B worldwide since the world is in huge shortage of CXO talents. We have a cutting edge math & algo dev team with 3 PhDs.

(Replacing COO and CFO this time) This time, we aim to replace the roles of COO and CFO. The COO's role, as discussed, involves handling operations and demonstrating leadership. We are exploring to what extent this can be replaced by large language models. The CFO's role is, literally, managing finances. Understanding to what extent this can be replaced by large language models is central to our plan.

(Why Automating the COO Role is Challenging) Automating the COO role is difficult due to the l

• primary business model

B2B SaaS. We get potential customers from integration partners like we did in previous business with Slack. We plan to list in Microsoft Office marketplace, Github marketplace, Asana Marketplace, intuit marketplace as plug-in via API.
We will offer $0 free trial for 14days, $50/mo for small teams, $300/mo for mid-size team, and customized pricing for bit enterprise. Open Source version is free for DIY development.

• which industry

Accounting, Workplace productivity

• which category

AI

• demo

http://kiaraapp.notion.site/
URL for video

• stage : working MVP

• funding
  $1M

• which kind of founder
  Technical

• which cloud we use